This is a really good post from one of those Cluetrainer guys, Doc Searls. Doc, David Weinberger, and Chris Locke, the three who blog, basically got me in to blogging in the first place back in 2002 after I read The Cluetrain Manifesto and started reading theirs and other blogs. Thanks , Doc, for that tribute to Dr. King.

The Doc Searls Weblog : Monday, January 16, 2006

That death stands out for me because it was emblematic of the grief, hopelessness, despair and anger that followed the murder of Martin Luther King.
Listen to the Dream speech, and hear the hope it brought to people of all races. That hope was real. That hope lifted a nation. That hope moved civilization forward.
The Dream speech was dawn. It was light. It promised freedom. After that speech, many more people fought for that freedom, most effectively without violence, as Dr. King had taught them. I was one of those people.